Bio

Dianne Floyd Sutton is President of Sutton Enterprises, author, trainer, educator, facilitator, expert witness, coach and actor. She has twenty-five years of combined experience in Human Resource Development (HRD) and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) training. And she has twenty years of business experience as Sutton Enterprises. She has the skills to create a safe learning environment where diverse participants are able to ask questions, experiment with new behaviors and make mistakes. She also has the ability to present models and techniques in a straight forward and clear manner so that they are easier to remember and utilize. Before founding Sutton Enterprises in 1987, she held a variety of positions at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in training and employee development.

In compliment to her HRD and EEO work, Dianne has served in a number of jobs in which she made her passion for advancing workplace ethics and employee protection into a viable business. Dianne was an adjunct professor at American University School of Communication for twelve years. She has been recognized as an outstanding faculty member of the Graduate School, USDA, Center for Leadership and Management and has served as a guest lecturer at Montgomery College, University of the District of Columbia, George Washington University and Florida A & M. She is on the Executive Board of the Washington, D.C. based Training Officers Consortium (TOC) and serves as TOC historian. Dianne served two years on the Policy Board of the National Rural Health Association (Kansas City, Missouri) where she actively worked to eliminate health disparities within special rural health populations. Self Employed Magazine published by the National Association for the Self Employed featured Dianne in 2001 in the article “When Saying No Can Lead to Success.” She was twice elected (2002 and 2004) as an Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) Commissioner of a single member district in the District of Columbia, representing over 2,000 residents. Her most recent publication is Workplace Etiquette: A Guide to Thriving and Surviving in Today’s Workplace.

Dianne started her career as a recreation leader for the city of St. Louis, Missouri while earning her undergraduate degree. She was a mathematics instructor in the St. Louis, Missouri Public School System while attending graduate school at Washington University.

Her most recent publication is Workplace Etiquette: A Guide to Thriving and Surviving in Today’s Workplace.

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